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Going to the APA Congress? Visit the Ascentis booth and register to win an Apple iPad and other great prizes.

Ascentis will be attending the APA Congress as an exhibitor in 2010. This will be our first year at the Congress, and we’re excited to be a part of a great organization that has been working with payroll professionals for more than 28 years.

To celebrate our first exhibition with the APA, Ascentis will be holding drawings for Apple iPads (two will be given away at the show), as well as Ghirardelli Chocolate, Bare Escentuals gift cards and some great wine selections (all these gifts are products made by some of our most prestigious customers).

Ascentis Payroll is the ideal payroll solution to save companies both time and money. You get the control of in-house payroll with all the benefits of a SaaS solution. Other great Ascentis Payroll benefits include:

  • Ascentis Payroll processes in real-time, ensuring 100% accuracy and control.
  • Pay periods can be scheduled in advance, and off-cycle payrolls can be run anytime.
  • On-demand checks can be quickly created.
  • With Ascentis Employee Self-Service, employees can access direct deposit information, tax withholdings and paycheck history.
  • Used in conjunction with Ascentis HRIS, redundancy is eliminated and accuracy enhanced.

Watch an 8-minute tour of Ascentis Payroll.

So join us at booth #214, May 26-28, in Washington D.C. We look forward to making many new friends, showing product demos, giving away great prizes, and enjoying the networking opportunities with the APA.

What to look for in an HRIS

To be a practical investment choice for a mid-tier organization, a satisfactory HRIS solution must have its HR and benefits functions highly integrated. It must be both agile and robust so it can easily be kept abreast of constant change, and it must be built on a tried and true foundation that is easy to use and maintain, such as a modern database like SQL Server or Access for smaller companies.

Ease of use is a vitally important feature for an HRIS. The learning curve on any new software is often a challenge for people whose primary function is non-technical, such as the average HR consultant. It is important that if the investment is made in a product, it is accepted to the extent that it becomes part of the fabric of the department. There are three things to look for that will make an HRIS easier to use and more accepted by staff:

• Wizards: Wizard-based technology makes it easy for staff to enter or import information and make changes and updates, by following through a set of simple instructional, fill-in the blanks forms on the screen, rather than their having to learn to program or call in the consultants.

• Strong HR facilities combined with flexible benefit capabilities: The system should be able to handle compensation, attendance and recruitment, and legal requirements such as FMLA and OSHA, while integrating them with benefits issues such as COBRA.

• Role-based operation: A good HRIS solution should be able to cater to the needs of a wide range of people and functions within the organization, and should appear seamlessly tailored to their requirements. Role based administration is becoming increasingly important in the HRIS marketplace. With this feature, HR administrators can define what an individual can see in the system, allowing managers access to the information they need about their particular team, while locking them out of information that is not pertinent to them. Role-based administration can extend further into proactive alerting—a particular manager or management level can be automatically alerted by the system that it is time to conduct a review, for instance, with those alerts being based on the specific mangers role and needs within the organization.

Ascentis provides fully integrated HRIS, self-service and payroll solutions that are especially designed for small to mid-sized organizations. For more information, visit www.Ascentis.com.

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